Detection of Bacteria

I think it's very institution dependent on how they're restricting or allowing people to send the test. One strategy that we've used at our place is especially for the tissues and fluids that there may be just one chance to collect them say intraoperatively. Beyond bacterial detection ID fellows need to know what treatment to recommend. If we sequence deep enough if there's enough organism there we can recapitulate the bacteriums chromosome and extra chromosomal genetic elements, plasmids and so forth.